Critique please.

oh no, I was just joking about how forward you were. you were just honest with how to felt with no sugar coating. that is alright, i prefer a bit of sugar coating myself. Being new to photography, I have a long way to go and I love getting honest c&c, it stings but helps so much i the long run. I just dont want to hurt anyone and want to encourage. I wasnt getting on you about it.
 
Yikes.

Focus is off.
Too much hat.
Terrible facial expression.
No retouch.
Poor makeup.
Bad wardrobe.
Poor positioning and jewelry placement.
No hair detail.
Dreadful background.

But on the upside, you managed to successfully depress the shutter button.

Hey thanks Alpha, your comments are extremely appreciated,,,,,well, no I guess they really aren't, not that way. But hey, this is America, and at least you were right about one of the things you said.
 
I like it alot. Now, the eyelash thing - I thought was being a bit picky - holy crap an out of place eyelash! But then, looking at it again, you could almost think it's something on the lens.
Oh, it wasn't meant to be picky at all.
On the contrary. I like the photograph, and offered constructive
suggestions.
She has an expression, in which the eyes and the mouth take part,
and the low hat above the eyes nicely eccentuates the direction of
her attention.

Eyes are the "focus" of a face, and draw more attention than the
rest of the face.
As the eyes are very important in an expression, the 2 untidy
eyelashes over the white -- even more so "hooked" one on the white
of her right eye -- 'get in the way' and don't look good.
It looks like a technical problem.

At the same time, I said nothing about the 'so-so' make up of her
eyes, because that's 'part of her', part of the candidness of the shot,
so it's perfectly OK.

However, it's not like you can go up and say " hey, i don't know you but i'm taking some pics of you that you don't know about and....i mean....if you don't mind...could you do something about those whacky eyelashes of yours?"

:)
Her reply:
"Go get Photoshop"... ;)
 
Hmm... I took a second look...
Yes, it might be a guy...
 

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